Eponym of the week: New Hampshire-born Earl Tupper. A manufacturer of plastic beads and soap containers, he received a block of polyethylene soon after World War II from DuPont, which was hoping peacetime uses could be found for this new material created for the war effort. After much tinkering, Tupper created the burping-seal Wonderbowl, first sold in 1947. The brand name Tupperware was coined soon thereafter.

Can you name someone with the nickname Frankie who played second base at Fordham University and went on to be a Cardinal? If you're a baseball fan, you'll recognize Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals. But there's one more famous fellow who fits the same description. That would be Francis Cardinal Spellman, who was archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967.

In 1910, six years after the Wright brothers' first flight, the first successful powered flight was made on the Australian continent. The pilot wasn't Wilbur or Orville, but a fellow who was already famous worldwide as:
A) A magician
B) A novelist
C) An explorer
D) A king

Previous answer: "The American Leonardo" is the title of a biography of Samuel Morse, whose renown as both an artist and inventor is not unlike that of Leonardo da Vinci.

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